Deployment was completed in-house. We upgrade it almost every year. 

We secured the hardware, installed the new server, and then installed the old catalog on the new server. 

We are a team of five people. At least two guys were involved in deployment. We recently upgraded to the new version, so it took around two days.

Depending on the complexity of the environment we have a team of up to five storage administrators that do the implementation, updates, and maintenance of the solution.

in house one.

We implemented this solution in-house.

We used a business partner to assist in the implementation.

One engineer is good enough to do the implementation of IBM ProtectTIER.